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What was the KGB's purpose?
The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) or Committee for State Security, was the USSR's many layered institution consisting of various "directorates" that performed the combined functions carried out in other countries by the CIA, FBI, MI5, MI6, ASIO and other secret police, spying and intelligence agencies. The KGB's predecessors in the USSR were the NKVD, and the Cheka which was founded and headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky. The Cheka carried out torture and executions during the Russian Civil War and the Red Terror. The NKVD was instrumental in carrying out Stalin's purges of the 1930's. By whatever name it was known as at the time, the KGB was synonomous with terror, torture and death, and that was just within the USSR. KGB activities outside the USSR are legendary, and many a book has been written and movie made about their activities. The KGB headquarters were at Lubyanka Square in Moscow. The KGB was moderated and broken up after the collapse of the USSR and is now known as the FSB (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) or Federal Security Service.
When did NKVD end?
NKVD ended in 1954.
What did Lenin's Cheka become under Stalin?
The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.
When did the OGPU change to the NKVD?
The OGPU (under the new name of GUGB) was absorbed into the NKVD in 1934.
Did Ivan the Terrible have secret police?
Yes, the most certainly did. Even today Soviet people shudder when they think about the KGB. It infiltrated organizations, business and social groups, reporting anything that was considered anti-communist. Russia, under the Tsar had a secret police force known as the Okhrana. After the Bolshevik takeover in the October Revolution, there was the VCheKa, or Cheka. Then it became the GPU; then the OGPU. After a time it became the KGB.
What was the NKVD?
The NKVD Stalin's secret police, (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del) later called the KGB.
Who was the sovite commission that worked as police counter revaloution?
Cheka, NKVD, KGB
What preceded the KGB?
Before the Russian Revolution the state security was called the Okhranka. Under Lenin that task was called the Cheka. It underwent several name changes OGPU, NKGB, MGB and then the MVD. It is currently called the FSB, with the foreign branch as the SVR.
Stalins secret police?
Cheka (Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya, Extraordinary Commission), from 1917.NKVD (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del,People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) 1934-1954.After Stalin's death in 1953:KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, Committee for State Security) 1954-1991.
What was the KGB's purpose?
The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) or Committee for State Security, was the USSR's many layered institution consisting of various "directorates" that performed the combined functions carried out in other countries by the CIA, FBI, MI5, MI6, ASIO and other secret police, spying and intelligence agencies. The KGB's predecessors in the USSR were the NKVD, and the Cheka which was founded and headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky. The Cheka carried out torture and executions during the Russian Civil War and the Red Terror. The NKVD was instrumental in carrying out Stalin's purges of the 1930's. By whatever name it was known as at the time, the KGB was synonomous with terror, torture and death, and that was just within the USSR. KGB activities outside the USSR are legendary, and many a book has been written and movie made about their activities. The KGB headquarters were at Lubyanka Square in Moscow. The KGB was moderated and broken up after the collapse of the USSR and is now known as the FSB (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) or Federal Security Service.
When did NKVD end?
NKVD ended in 1954.
When was NKVD created?
NKVD was created in 1934.
What did Lenin's Cheka become under Stalin?
The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.
Did the Soviet Union have a secret police?
Yes. It was founded in 1917 soon after the Bolshevik Revolution and for most of the period 1917-1926 it was headed by Felix Dzherzhinsky. It had various various names and from 1954 till the collapse of the USSR in 1991 it was referred to as the KGB.
What was the purpose of the KGB?
It roughly combined the powers and activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, Border Patrol, FBI (in part supplanted by MVD- formerly NKVD) and in bodyguarding celebs and Soviet politicians- the Secret Service- also preventing counterfeiting a Federal level crime. there was at least one KGB intelligence operative on every Soviet Submarine, and there is some evidence the agency had its own spy subs. There was and is-though inevitably scaled back, nothing quite like the KGB.
Was Stalin assassinated by trotsky followers?
Joseph Stalin died of natural causes in l953. There is no evidence of any assasination. a Staliln shooting would have sparked a counter-revolution by the NKVD and KGB and possibly the Red Army as well. Joe died of natural causes.
How did Stalin show that there would be no multiparty political system?
Simple. He was a paranoid homocidal psychopath and simply liquidated all who opposed him. Imagined or not. His KGB and NKVD gangsters were only too happy to accommodate. To live under Stalin was a daily life of "hell on earth".
